71 - Chase Brock
b'CHASE BROCK, called \\u201cprolific\\u201d in The New Yorker and \\u201ca showman with an eye to a wide audience\\u201d in The New York Times, is a choreographer, director and occasional costume designer working across theater, dance, opera, ballet, TV and video games.\\nFrom Flat Rock, NC, Brock made his Broadway debut at 16 in the original cast of Susan Stroman\\u2019s revival of The Music Man, also appearing on \\u201cThe Rosie O\\u2019Donnell Show\\u201d and \\u201cThe Tony Awards.\\u201d At 18, Brock produced a showcase of his own choreography in Michael Bennett\\u2019s leg- endary building at 890 Broadway, and at 23, he launched his own dance company.\\nAs Artistic Director of The Chase Brock Experience (in residence at Theatre Row on 42nd St), he has commissioned 8 original scores and directed, choreographed and often designed cos- tumes for 31 original works including American Sadness to Gabriel Kahane\\u2019s debut album, The Four Seasons to the Vivaldi score and new text by David Zellnik, Mirror Mirror with an original score by Michael John LaChiusa, The Song That I Sing; Or, Meow So Pretty to vintage record- ings by The New Christy Minstrels, The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes with original score and sce- nario by Eric Dietz, and Whoa, Nellie! to Nellie McKay\\u2019s album Obligatory Villagers.\\nBroadway choreography: Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz\\u2019s Be More Chill (Lyceum Theatre), Bono, The Edge and Julie Taymor\\u2019s Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark (Foxwoods Theatre) and Sam Gold\\u2019s revival of Inge\\u2019s Picnic (Roundabout Theatre Company). International choreography: Disney\\u2019s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (North American, German and Japanese companies), Be More Chill (London), Rom\\xe9o et Juliette (Salzburger Festspiele).\\nOff-Broadway choreography: Disney\\u2019s Hercules, Michael John LaChiusa\\u2019s First Daughter Suite, Lear deBessonet and Todd Almond\\u2019s The Tempest and The Winter\\u2019s Tale (The Public Theater), The Wildness (Ars Nova), Gigantic (Vineyard Theatre), The Mysteries (The Flea Theater). Re- gional highlights include directing The Music Man, The Nutcracker (Flat Rock Playhouse) and The Night They Invented Champagne (Westport Country Playhouse) and choreographing the world premieres of Sara Bareilles\\u2019s Waitress (American Repertory Theater), Soul: The Stax Mu- sical (Baltimore Center Stage, dir. Kwame Kwei Armah), Daniel Zaitchik\\u2019s Darling Grenadine (Goodspeed Musicals) and Be More Chill (Two River Theater).\\nOther highlights include serving as the onscreen theater director for the Fiddler on the Roof episode of Kristin Bell\\u2019s \\u201cEncore!" (Disney+) and choreography for Bartlett Sher\\u2019s production of Gounod\\u2019s Rom\\xe9o et Juliette for The Metropolitan Opera and \\u201cGreat Performances\\u201d (PBS), \\u201cDash & Lily\\u201d (Netflix), many works of political satire for \\u201cLast Week Tonight with John Oliver\\u201d on HBO, the bestselling video game Dance on Broadway (Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Move), sever- al ballets for New York Theatre Ballet and the upcoming film Man & Witch.\\nBrock is the subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary Chasing Dance, and his latest project is the creation of Modern Accord Depot (modernaccorddepot.com), an arts residency space and luxury getaway in a turn-of-the-century Hudson Valley train depot.\\nFor more, please visit www.chasebrock.com and www.chasebrockexperience.com\\nFollow @instachasebrock\\n\\n--- \\n\\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/confessionsofanactress/message'